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Articles by Art Katz available online and in PDF download format.
Message to a Secular University Audience
You may think that Christianity is derived from a Jewish foundation in religion, and that it is some narrow faith restricted to those who are Jews or Westerners, but that is not true. There is only one God, one faith, and one way for all men and for all nations.
Let’s begin in the Gospel of [...]
Messianic Conference Report: The Morning After
Again, I had the strange sense of being entirely “out of it” in the midst of a whole congregation, mostly women, greatly moved to dance in the aisles and on the platform. They were playing loud, recorded Israeli-type music whose lyrics were shown overhead. Meanwhile the kippur and tallis-wearing ‘rabbi’ intones appropriate solemnities and incitements [...]
Messianic or Hebraic?
A Critique of the Messianic Movement
There are large segments of the essentially Gentile church that are a little mystified by the Messianic movement. They do not know quite how to assess it, how it fits in, and how it relates to what they are about. This message is more of an exploratory word, and is [...]
The Ministerial Mystique
One of the greatest dangers facing anyone in ministry for the Lord, be it a worship leader, a pastor, a missionary, a Sunday school teacher, is that an unconscious affectation can creep in unnoticed. It is where a person takes on a style or role that they have adopted for themselves over a course of [...]
Moral: A Teacher’s Seminar in Albania
I am happy to have this opportunity to share with you and I appreciate the fact that this is on your own time and that you would rather be home because I myself was a teacher for seven years, a history teacher in California. I was a Marxist radical for four years in the school [...]
Mt. Sinai versus the Cross of Christ
The Revelation at Sinai
God’s revelation of Himself and the giving of the Law at Sinai was a history-shaping occurrence. However, in our insistence upon confining Him to Sinai, are we not again guilty of limiting the Holy One of Israel? Should our well-meaning defending of His Name and interests be founded solely on this revelation? [...]
The Mystery of the Wisdom of God
Paul is not interested in promulgating mystery in order that we should have our curiosity gratified, but in order that it might be administered and effectually fulfilled [...]
The Mystery of Zion – Gleanings from Psalm 87
His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwelling places of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God” (Ps. 87:1-3).
If He loves the gates of Zion, what ought our attitude to be? If we have difficulties in identifying what Zion [...]